Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party

Bobby Seale


FOREWORD

GROWING UP: BEFORE THE PARTY
Who I am
I Meet Huey
Huey Breaks with the Cultural Nationalists
The Soul Students Advisory Council
We Hit the Streets
Using the Poverty Program
Police-Community Relations

HUEY: GETTING THE PARTY GOING
The Panther Program
Why We Are Not Racists
Our First Weapons
Red Books for Guns
Huey Backs the Pigs Down
Badge 206
Huey and the Traffic Light
A Gun at Huey's Head

THE PARTY GROWS, ELDRIDGE JOINS
The Paper Panthers
Confrontation at Ramparts
Eldridge Joins the Panthers
The Death of Denzil Dowell

PICKING UP THE GUN
Niggers with Guns in the State Capitol
Sacramento Jail
Bailing Out the Brothers
The Black Panther Newspaper
Huey Digs Bob Dylan
Serving Time at Big Greystone

THE SHIT COMES DOWN: "FREE HUEY!"
Free Huey!
A White Lawyer for a Black Revolutionary
Coalitions
Stokely Comes to Oakland
Breaking Down Our Doors
Shoot-out: The Pigs Kill Bobby Hutton
Getting on the Ballot
Huey Is Tried for Murder
Pigs, Puritanism, and Racism
Eldridge Is Free!
Our Minister of Information
Bunchy Carter and Bobby Hutton
Charles R. Garry: The Lenin of the Courtroom

CHICAGO: KIDNAPPED, CHAINED, TRIED, AND GAGGED
Kidnapped
To Chicago in Chains
Cook County Jail
My Constitutional Rights Are Denied
Gagged, Shackled, and Bound
Yippies, Convicts, and Cops

PIGS, PROBLEMS, POLITICS, AND PANTHERS
Do-Nothing Terrorists and Other Problems
Why They Raid Our Offices
Jackanapes, Renegades, and Agents Provocateurs
Women and the Black Panther Party
"Off the Pig," "Motherfucker," and Other Terms
Party Programs - Serving the People

SEIZE THE TIME



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